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Council Minutes of 5/5/93 5) The senior housing project is proceeding well. We are currently involved in acquiring the land aril hiring an architect. Last year the city received $150,000 from a Camnmity Development Block Grant for land acquisition and construction. We have also applied for a similar amount this year aril are hopeful of receiving the grant. 6) She new fire station project is also proceeding well. The Fire Department has fond several committees to coordinate ideas and needs which will then be shared with the architect. 7) The firefighters also formal a committee to study and discuss the central dispatch proposal. The camm~.ttee report stated that central dispatch can decrease response time, save money, decrease duplication of services and be ~ overall benefit to the citizens of North OLnsted. They have also made same recancistions as to location of central dispatch, and these will be discussed and presented to Council. Moving the Data Processing Department into the new fire station is an off-shoot of the central dispatch, ideas. This would help alleviate the overcrowding at City Hall and return the conference roan back to Council. 8) Cablevision, in response to residents' cc~plaints, will soon move WVIZ to Channel 4 so that it is available on all TV sets. Cablevision has agreed to give all residents who are not able to access WVIZ a free converter box until July 1 when this change can be made. The negotiations with Cablevisiom are continuing, and they have presented an informal preliminary +draft proposal. 9) The Mayor has been receiving post cards printed with a form letter asking what should be done with household hardous wastes such as old ps-nt, pesticides and used motor oil. The letter also asks the sexuier's concerns be made kno~m to the County Solid Waste ManagE~nent District. Since the postcards are addressed to Mayor Edward 0. Boyle and Cc~.mty Commissioner Mary 0. Boyle is in charge of that committee, the cards have pacnbably been misdirected. However, the Mayor is a member of the County Plarnr~ Ccm~ssion which is studying this problem. The County Plarn~ing Cammissia~n may eat up an 800 ra,s~ber to Envrorm~ntal Health Watch so that Gounty residents can call aril learn about the places where household hazardous waste can be dspb~.. Also, the County Planning Commission has produced a brochure listing different locations for disposal of hazardous waste and different methods of disposal. 10) Dr. and Mrs.. Vladimir Pechatnor, Consular of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cleveland, will be at Grand Pacific Junction in Olmsted Falls on Sunday, May 23. The Mayor will attend the reception. 11) During the summer, -the Mad Center will be doing blood. pressure testing at the Senior Center. Law Director Gateau reported: 1) The motion for summary J'~t in the Dorsey case has been granted declaring the City of North Olmsted had governmental ~~m~ty with respect to maintaining a delineator stake as part of a traffic control device. 2) With regard to senior housing, he has spent five to six hours during the past week pursuing the legal aspects, preparing the ordinance aril, along with the Mayor, interviewing architects. It is possible that a Charter aunt may be considered so that the subject of senior housing will not have to be put on the ballot. Currently our charter provides that rezoning land for multi-family use must be put on the ballot. Many people do not understand that. multi-family is not a permitted use in general retail business districts. 2 ~.